Chris Mayer's Recent Articles

There is a portfolio that makes the coffee can portfolio look impatient: the Voya Corporate Leaders Trust Fund. It was the subject of one of the best stories I read all week. Ross Kerber wrote it for Reuters. Chris Mayer gives his insight on it here...

Chris Mayer's writes from the Hotel Storchen on the bank of the Limmat River in the heart of Zurich, Switzerland. It is a picturesque city with its lakeshore location and the snowy Alps in the background. He investigates the world's favorite wealth haven and how crackdowns on tax evasion are eroding its edge.

Appreciating currencies, falling prices and lower interest rates, oh my! Chris Mayer lays out the “whats” and “whys” of today's deflation and tells you what kind of company can forge ahead despite it...

They've limped out of recession…but what does the future hold for Japan’s export-driven economy as more nations join the currency wars? Chris Mayer on why it may be time to reinvent the Japanese Miracle…

In a recent interview, Peter Thiel gave a simple and clear explanation of what gives the U.S. dollar its power. “It surprised me,” writes Chris Mayer, “because I had not heard anyone but fringe economists give it. And yet it is the key to understanding modern money.” Chris revisits the idea… including some radical ideas “that will change the way you think of money and the economy forever.”

There are rumblings of an oil comeback in a country that isn’t often mentioned in the same sentence as oil. But they’re been a major producer for years, and lately they’re really getting their act together. That’s why today, Chris has a new opportunity from this little-thought-of nation, that could set you up for big gains in the years ahead…

It’s a new year, but it’s still the same market with the same people in it and the same worries. The big story is still the collapse of oil prices. As Chris Mayer writes in this essay, oil just slipped to a new 5 1/2-year low. Click to read Chris reveal some things you probably didn’t know about oil pricing -- an explanation for crude's crash from "the only guy who seems to get this"...

There is a lot going on all of the sudden… normalization of U.S. relations with Cuba… the collapse of the ruble… Fed policy chatter that sent the markets into a frenzy… and more. But as Chris shows, the biggest story of the year has to be the collapse of oil prices…

The year 2014 was one of the worst ever for stock pickers. But almost everyone thinks about this in the wrong way. And it could cost you a lot of money in the long run if you think this way too. Chris Mayer offers another way to think about it in today's essay...